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Keith Richards: I Don’t Own An Ipod
He’s rock royalty and likes to keep it old-school: Keith Richards says he doesn’t own an iPod.
“I don’t have an iPod. … I still use CDs or records actually. Sometimes cassettes. It has much better sound; a much better sound than digital,” he said in a recent interview.
The 69-year-old believes music lovers are “all being shortchanged” with the sound that comes out of an iPod, launched in 2001.
“My old lady’s got one. My kids have got them. I say, ‘Look me up this.’ Or, ‘Oh I like that. Check me that,’“ he said. “I know what these things can do. I’m not totally anti-them.”
The Rolling Stones’ “50 & Counting Tour” kicks off Friday in Los Angeles. The Stones released their self-titled debut in 1964, and while Richards has accepted that the music industry is digitally driven today, he’s not completely OK with it.
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Crossroads Guitar Festival, Madison Square Garden Arena, New York City
“They’re sucked into it and they can’t get out of it, nor can we; so is the public,” he said. “There’s something missing there, but it’s the price of the future I guess.”